![]() ![]() If you’d like to see the Notebox Disorganizer file in which I wrote this article, you can download it from the Editorium’s website. If we see that scene 4 should actually be scene 5, we can move it down. If we realize that scene 4 in chapter 2 should really be in chapter 8, we can cut the box and then paste it where it belongs. We can move boxes and columns around as needed. For nonfiction, each column could be a chapter, and the boxes could be sections of the chapter. Here, the book is broken up into parts that include the various chapters, but we could just as easily have each column be a chapter, and the boxes in that column be scenes. With Notebox Disorganizer, we can see the entire structure of our book laid out in a grid. To return to the boxes, we hit the ESCAPE key. The cursor jumps to the document at the bottom, and we’re ready to write. We can move the cursor to the box we want to use and press ENTER. Each box represents a separate document (although all of the documents are in the same file). The top part of the screen consists of boxes divided among rows and columns. Notebox Disorganizer is a sort of spreadsheet for writers. (Sorry, Windows only - but please keep reading, as the other tools I’ll be discussing here work on Macintosh or Linux as well as Windows, and they’re well worth having.) I’ve tried nearly every writing program out there, and the best solution I’ve found is the idiosyncratic and free Notebox Disorganizer from the Squirrel Technologist. Unfortunately, like Word, Scrivener strikes me as clunky, uncooperative, and overly complex. It’s possible to do this (kind of) in Scrivener using its “corkboard” feature (on both Mac and PC). Rather than scrolling (or jumping) around a long, long document, I prefer to write in bits and pieces and then combine selected bits and pieces into a single document ready for editing. Access to text is sequential rather than random (as I explained in my essay, “ Changing Formats: From Scroll to Codex to eBooks”, although if you’ve used Word’s built-in heading styles, it’s possible to jump to those headings using the navigation window. Why? Because (as with most word processors) writing in Word is like scribbling on a scroll. But for writing, something else is needed. With my various add-ins at the Editorium, it can be a terrific editing tool. The most prominent of these, of course, is the bloated but powerful Microsoft Word. The final option I’m considering is creating a custom export template for IA Writer, however, these look a bit intimidating at first glance.I do a lot of writing, and over the years I’ve investigated many a tool that’s supposed to help with that process. It also requires me to publish from the Mac when ideally I’d like to be able to do so from the iPad as well. Ĭreating a custom Marked CSS looks doable, but non-trivial. So if it’s not possible to fix the checkbox issue with Ulysses then I’m probably down to the types of solutions suggested by. I like the idea of focussing on content first and then worrying about presentation afterwards and I think a WYSIWYG editor would distract me to tinkering with the format as I’m creating the content.I did also check out Typora as suggested by This looks interesting, but I don’t think it’s right for me for a couple of reasons. Unfortunately I use these extensively in meeting minutes etc.ĭoes anyone know if there’s a way to fix this in Ulysses ? ![]()
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